''Eoborus sanctijosephi'' is a
fossil species of air-breathing
land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...
, a
terrestrial pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk in the family
Strophocheilidae
Strophocheilidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Acavoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Fossil record
The genus '' E ...
, from the Paleocene
Itaboraí Basin, Brazil.
[Salvador, R.B. & Simone, L.R.L. 2012. New fossil pulmonate snails from the Paleocene of Itaboraí Basin, Brazil (Pulmonata: Cerionidae, Strophocheilidae, Orthalicidae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde 141(1): 43-50. ] ''Eoborus sanctijosephi'' is a large species in the
genus ''
Eoborus
''Eoborus'' is a fossil genus of medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Strophocheilidae. ''Eoborus'' is the oldest fossil record of Strophocheilidae, dating from the Middle Paleocene of Brazil ( ...
''. Its name makes reference to the place of discovery: the São José de Itaboraí municipality, where
Itaboraí Basin is located.
The species was originally described as ''Strophocheilus sanctijosephi'', but was later transferred to the genus ''Eoborus''.
[Klappenbach, M.A. & Olazarri, J. 1970. Notas sobre Strophocheilidae (Moll. Gastr.), III. ''Eoborus'', nuevo género paraespecies fósiles de esta familia sudamericana. Archiv für Molluskenkunde 100(3/4): 179-182.] The species ''Vorticifex fluminensis'' (Brito, 1967) was considered to be the fragment of the spire top of ''E. sanctijosephi'' and, thus, its synonym.
[Salvador, R.B. & Simone, L.R.L]
Taxonomic revision of the fossil pulmonate mollusks of Itaboraí Basin (Paleocene), Brazil.
Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 53(2): 5-46.
References
Strophocheilidae
Paleocene gastropods
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